In this undated arrest photo made available by the Florida Department of Corrections shows inmate Paul Augustus Howell.

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The execution of Paul Augustus Howell, responsible for the 1992 pipe-bomb killing of Florida Highway Patrol trooper Jimmy Fulford, did not happen Tuesday following a temporary stay issued by a federal appeals court.

Howell, 47, was scheduled to die by lethal injection at Florida State Prison in Starke. But the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals issued the temporary stay Monday after his retained attorneys filed motions in federal court asking that the execution be halted because he never received a federal habeas corpus review.